[lit-ideas] Re: Walking with Cavemen
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:34:20 -0800
Baldwin went on, "It is the frontal lobe that gives us the power to reason.
This man," he said, petting the skull's sloping forehead, "didn't have that.
He didn't have a well developed frontal lobe; so he had to rely upon emotion
rather than reason."
A sloping forehead probably reduced wind resistance. 'Cavemen' were
poised on the brink of becoming hunter-gatherers, who needed--at least
in hunting--to run as fast as possible.
Robert Paul
Not poised in the slightest
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